College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

Written by Alexis Kirkendall, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Hello everyone! My name is Alexis Kirkendall and I am a junior biology major at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. I have a fascination with microbes and the huge impacts such small things can make. All of us know this very well as the Covid-19 virus […]

Written by Hannah Jarvis, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant My name is Hannah Jarvis, and I’m a rising senior at Dartmouth College majoring in Environmental Studies. As the granddaughter of a Maine lobsterman, fisheries and marine conservation have become a burgeoning academic and career interest for me, leading me to apply to the NOAA Inclusive […]

Written by Halle Evans, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Mosquitoes. The nuisance that never seems to go away. So, if given the opportunity, would you completely exterminate them? I asked a similar question to my mentor, Dr. Allison Gardner, during my first week of this program. Her answer? That mosquitoes, if possible, COULD and SHOULD […]

Written by Rachel Jalbert, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Bugs…a very controversial organism; most people have very passionate feelings toward them. Typically you either love them or hate them. There are definitely bugs that insect lovers hate though…This summer I have been working in the forest entomology lab with Dr. Angela Mech and her graduate […]

Written by Natalie Siwek, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Hello! My name is Natalie Siwek and I am a third year undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology. The One Health program emphasizes the importance in understanding the intersections between environmental and human health, which encapsulates my interest in these fields of study. By diving […]

Written by Jackie Anderson, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Hello everyone! My name is Jackie Anderson, I’m a rising sophomore at Union College majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Environmental Science. I’ve always been interested in learning about the ways that humans interact with and impact their environments, and I am planning on […]

Written by Emily Holsinger, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Hello! My name is Emily Holsinger and I am a rising senior from Northern Michigan University majoring in Biology. Growing up in the state of Michigan, I was never concerned about going in my backyard, sitting on a park bench, or playing in the woods. The […]

Written by Elisabeth Roadcap, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Hello! My name is Elisabeth Roadcap, and I am a rising junior majoring in Molecular Genetics and minoring in Microbiology at the University of Vermont. After working on both produce and dairy farms, I became interested in how humans are impacted by the health of plants, […]

Written by Dartagnan Mullins, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant Hello! My name is Dartagnan Mullins and I am a rising senior studying biology at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Growing up in Washington State, I found my passion for studying animals at a young age as I explored the wilderness in my own backyard. […]

Written by Charlene Pérez Santos, OneHealth REU program 2022 participant From the small tropical island in the Caribbean called Puerto Rico, rising senior from the University of P.R. in Humacao, Charlene Pérez Santos, gets accepted as the first Puerto Rican in the NOAA IN-FISH Internship program where she takes part working on the first-ever “American […]